Officia (On Obligations) (first edition; Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1531)

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Officia (On Obligations) (first edition; Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1531)

1531

Hans Weiditz II, Hans Burgkmair, the Elder

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Heinrich Steiner’s new German translations in the early 1530s of classical texts by Cicero and Petrarch included several hundred woodcuts designed by Hans Weiditz II during the late 1510s. Weiditz had been commissioned to produce these remarkably detailed illustrations by another publisher, whose own book projects became delayed and ultimately cancelled by his bankruptcy. 
Artists
Hans Weiditz II (German, 1500-ca. 1536), Hans Burgkmair, the Elder (German, 1473–1531)
Author
Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman)
Title
Officia (On Obligations) (first edition; Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1531)
Date
1531
Object Type
Artist's Book
Medium
Book with 103 woodcuts plus approximately 27 uncatalogued decorative initials and end piece vignettes
Dimensions
Object: 32.8 x 22 x 3.4 cm (12 15/16 x 8 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Accession Number
1963.30.38813.1-103

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